Erich Wolfgang Korngold

✶May 29, 1897

†November 29, 1957

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian composer and conductor, who left Europe in the mid-1930s and later adopted US nationality. A child prodigy, he became one of the most important and influential composers in Hollywood history. He was a noted pianist and composer of classical music, along with music for Hollywood films, and the first composer of international stature to write Hollywood scores.

Austrian-born American composer and conductor (1897–1957)

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